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March 2016 has proven to be a milestone month in Australian Foreign Bribery law enforcement. There's been news of a high profile U.S. and Australian foreign bribery investigation, and new offenses have come into law, signalling further reform to come.

Cambodian child in the classroom (Image by Anna Issakova via iStock)I led an anti-corruption program in Cambodia a few years ago funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The corruption situation in the country was and remains terrible.

Robert Card, the President & CEO of SNC-LavalinCanadian engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin said Thursday the company and two subsidiaries have been charged with criminal corruption and fraud.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria issued a report in November that described how Cambodian government officials took nearly half a million dollars in bribes from mosquito-net manufacturers.

Former Vinalines chairman Duong Chi Dung (photo released by Vietnam government news agency)Two former top executives at Vietnam's national shipping company Vinalines were sentenced to death Monday for embezzlement and wasting state funds.

BHP Billiton said it will pull out of nearly all of its India oil and gas projects. The world's biggest mining company didn’t give a reason but local reports cited delays in getting exploration permits.

Laurence Cockcroft, author of 'Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World'Laurence Cockcroft is the author of the powerful new book Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World.